Railway equipment



- Y S. IQAUBT, OF ABJQ Applicafion filed lama as, wee. Serial as. use.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. DAUBERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Amarillo, county of Potter, and State of Texas,have invented a certain new and useful Improved Railway Equipment, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention, generally stated, has relation to railway equipment andhas more especial relation to an improved rail and rall-joint;

As at present constructed, considerable difiiculty is experienced withrail-joints becoming chipped, battered, fractured or mutilated.Specifically stated this trouble occurs at the rail ends upon thatportion of the rail usually termed the rail ball. This 1 results in therunning surface or rail ball top adjacent a joint becoming impaired thedisadvantage of which is readily apparent. The direct cause of thetrouble is that a moving train operates to impart vertical,frictionalcontact of the. rail ends with respect to one another firstcausing the rail tops to chip and subsequently the rail ends to becomebattered. Obviously climatic conditions alter the degree of frictionalcon tact since under rail expansion thede e of frictional contact ismore marked t an it is under rail contraction. According to modernrailway practice it is customary to build up such chipped, battered,fractured or mutilated rail arts by means of acetylene weldin 'I isrequires the employment of .ski led labor and is therefore an expensiverocedure.

The lea ing object of the present invention is to overcome the abovedescribed disadvantageous features and provide a rail construction inwhich the chipping, battering, fracturing or mutilation of rail jolntsis eliminated thus avoiding the necessity for employing acetylenewelding in keeping the track in repair. A further object resides in theprovision of means for attaining the results sought by said leadingobject. A further object is to provide a rail constructlon in whichrails may be manufactured at a cost not in excess of standard railproduction and which may be used as part of standard railway equipmentwithout employmg special fish-plates, splices or the like. Other andfurther objects not at this tlme more specifically referred to willappear here1nafter.

e invention consists of the improve ments hereinafter described andfinally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will bemore fully understood from the following description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1, is a view in side elevation of a rail embodying features of theinvention.

Fig; 2, is an end view thereof drawn to an enlarged scale, and i Fig. 3,is a fragmentary view, in side elevation, illustrating a rail-joint asefiected in accordance with the present invention.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in theaccompanying drawings one form thereof which is at pres ent preferred byme, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory andreliable results, although it is to be understood that the variousinstrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variouslyarranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to theprecise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as hereinshown and described.

According to the present invention preferably one end of a rail 10 iscut away as at 11. Obviously both ends may be so cut away if'desired. Inpractice this cut is efv fected upon that part of the rail known as therail ball which is designated 12. Con.- sidered longitudinally of therail'the cutaway ortion is of a depth of three-eighths (a) 0 'an inchand considered vertically of the rail said cut-away portion is equal tothe height of the rail ball and extends laterally across the entire faceof the rail ball. The rail web 13 and rail base 14 remain intact and areof conventional formation. While obviously, the cut-away portions 11 maybe made upon tracks now installed; or before the rails are installed; inpractice it is desirable to have the same accomplished at the rail millsat the time of rail manufacture. The cutting of rail ends adds little orno expense to rail manufacture. In practice a rail having a cut-awayportion is arranged so that said portion is positioned adjacent anun-cut end of a comanion rail, see Fig. 3, with the webs and ases of therespective rails abutting as usual. us there is left between the railballs a comparativel small opening or ace which is never 0 c and theopposed and that special fish-plates, splices and the like areunnecessary since conventional rail webs and bases are used, andconsequently standard fish-plates may be employed.

lit will now be apparent that I have'devised a novel and usefulconstruction which embodies the features of advantage enumerated asdesirable in the statement of the invention and the above descriptionand while I have in the present instance shown and described thepreferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to givesatisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the sameis susceptible of modification in various particulars without departingfrom the spirit or scope of'the invention or sacrificing any of itsadvanta es.

at l claim is:

l. A traction rail comprising a convennewness tional base, Web and ballportion, which ball portion is slightly cut away at a rail end sothatwhen positioned adjacent a companion rail ball there is present apermanently open space between the rail balls so that frictional contactthereof is eliminated in vertical movement of a rail due to tractionthereover whereby chipping of the rail top surface with a consequentbattered end is prevented.

2. In combination, traction rails each comprising a conventional base,web and traction portion, which traction portion is slightly cut-away ata rail end to provide clearance leaving the base and web intact toeffect the usual rail-joint and conventional means for securing saidrails together,

substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. lin combination, traction rails each comprising a conventional base,web and ball portion, which ball portion is slightly cut away at a railend toprovide clearance,-leaving the base and web intact to efieot theusual rail-joint, a rail having an un-cut ball portionbeing opposed tothe cut end of a rail and a conventional fish-plate for securin% saidrails together. a i

n testimony whereof, ll have hereunto signed my name. HARRY S. DAUBERT.

